From 4587915b2aed8d2a8373614e5984fe6e5ccaeae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey M Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 02:56:09 +0600 Subject: [PATCH] [README.md] Make configuration file example more diverse --- README.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d50d4b9508..7d9d501d7b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -409,11 +409,14 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. # CONFIGURATION -You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime and use a proxy: +You can configure youtube-dl by placing any supported command line option to a configuration file. On Linux, the system wide configuration file is located at `/etc/youtube-dl.conf` and the user wide configuration file at `~/.config/youtube-dl/config`. On Windows, the user wide configuration file locations are `%APPDATA%\youtube-dl\config.txt` or `C:\Users\\youtube-dl.conf`. + +For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extract the audio, not copy the mtime, use a proxy and save all videos under `Movies` directory in your `$HOME`: ``` ---extract-audio +-x --no-mtime --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128 +-o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s ``` You can use `--ignore-config` if you want to disable the configuration file for a particular youtube-dl run.